Optimal Layout Alternatives

Optimal Layout is described as 'Powerful Mac OS X application for managing your applications windows. Optimal Layout gives you keyboard shortcuts to instantly organize your windows and simple ways to layout windows with your mouse' and is a Window Manager in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Optimal Layout for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, File Explorer, PortableApps.com and Linux apps. The best Optimal Layout alternative is BetterTouchTool. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try AquaSnap or SmartSystemMenu. Other great apps like Optimal Layout are Divvy, altdrag, WindowGrid and Moom.

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Optimal Layout is a powerful Mac OS X application for managing your applications windows. Optimal Layout gives you keyboard shortcuts to instantly organize your windows and simple ways to layout windows with your mouse.

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Optimal Layout alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
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  1. WindowTidy icon
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    WindowTidy

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    Arrange your application windows using nothing but drag and drop! There are no hot-keys to remember or menus to click, just drag and drop a window onto Layout Icon and it will instantly snap to that layout.

    61 WindowTidy alternatives
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    Discontinued

    Please Note! All support and updates will cease at the end of January 2018. See http://www.lightpillar.com/window-tidy.html

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  2. Moo0 WindowMenuPlus icon
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    Moo0 WindowMenuPlus

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    Moo0 WindowMenuPlus lets you have extra useful menus in every windows "system window menu". Its the menu that you can access through right-clicking on any windows title bar or taskbar button. This tool can add extra menus there such as "Keep on Top"...

    13 Moo0 WindowMenuPlus alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Moo0 WindowMenuPlus Features

    1.  Transparency
    2.  On top
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  4. VEEER icon
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    VEEER

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    VEEER is a lightweight window manager for your mac OSX - designed for designers & developers and built for a maximum workflow speed.

    60 VEEER alternatives
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    • Mac

    VEEER Features

    1.  Snap windows
    VEEER iconOptimal Layout Icon

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    AquaSnap

    Too many windows on your screen? Stop wasting your productivity. AquaSnap brings new easy and efficient ways to manage multiple applications.

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    Minime

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    Minime is a tool that allows you to minimize applications to the system tray using a simple hotkey. What makes this tool somewhat unique is that it keeps your system tray clean by minimizing all applications into a single tray icon.

    25 Minime alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    Last Update: 2013-04-10. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/minime-tool/

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  7. MaxSnap icon
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    MaxSnap

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    Powerful Window Manager for Mac.

    58 MaxSnap alternatives
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    • Mac
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  8. ActiveDock icon
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    ActiveDock

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    Application Launcher, improved Dock for macOS, alternative to Apple Dock, uBar, HyperDock.

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    ActiveDock Features

    1.  Launcher
    2.  Dock
    3.  Window docking
    4.  Window organizer
    5.  Alternatives
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  10. Better Window Manager icon
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    Better Window Manager

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    A tiny window management app for the Mac.

    47 Better Window Manager alternatives
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  11. xNeat Windows Manager icon
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    xNeat Windows Manager

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    xNeat is a windows enhancement utility. With the free version you can change any windows transparency, hide it, make it always on top, send it to tray, change the process/thread priority, Shuffle the taskbar etc.

    33 xNeat Windows Manager alternatives
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    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    xNeat Windows Manager Features

    1.  On top
    2.  Transparency
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  12. ZoneSize icon
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    ZoneSize

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    Define zones that autosize windows dropped on them.

    Features:

    • Hold a window over a zone for .5 sec to autosize it.
    • Doubleclick the tray icon to center the active window.
    41 ZoneSize alternatives
    Settings

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    • Free • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    ZoneSize iconOptimal Layout Icon

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  13. Autumn icon
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    Autumn

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    Autumn is a full customizable window manager for Mac with a built-in IDE for coders to configure everything with JavaScript or TypeScript.

    64 Autumn alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    • Mac

    Autumn Features

    1.  Window organizer
    Embedded IDE
    Built-in documentation
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    Discontinued

    The company Sephware announced in March 2019 that Autumn was made open source. Now the project is on GitHub, but it seems abandoned. Last version, 1.0.7, released on March 27, 2019, can be still downloaded from GitHub

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  14. Deskovery icon
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    Deskovery

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    Deskovery is an OS X window manager. Windowshade, align, resize, change transparency of your windows.

    64 Deskovery alternatives
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    Wobbly windows
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    window list
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  15. AROW icon
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    AROW

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    Arrange, resize, snap, and move windows in OS X with the help of keyboard shortcuts, certain window dragging gestures, or using OS X's window buttons.

    64 AROW alternatives
    Snap windows by dragging it to the edge of the screen.

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    • Mac

    AROW Features

    1.  Snap windows
    Move and resize windows with smart panel.
    Define window buttons' behaviors for quick snap.
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    Dear S,Thanks for contacting us.Sorry that the app AROW is not available now. We removed it for sales due to some problems a year ago.Best Regards,Gerald NiLighten Software Supporthttps://www.lightenpdf.com

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